]]>http://zacharylevifan.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=140740Zachary Levi Talks Geeks Who Drink, Heroes Reborn, Marvel Movies, Comic-Con and Morehttp://zacharylevifan.com/wordpress/?p=14072
http://zacharylevifan.com/wordpress/?p=14072#commentsTue, 07 Jul 2015 17:10:23 +0000http://zacharylevifan.com/wordpress/?p=14072A sci-fi trivia quiz show is a great idea. What took so long? It’s all in the timing. Celebrities doing game shows only recently came back into vogue, plus it took a while for celebrities drinking on TV to be OK again. Look back at some of those old Tonight Show episodes with Johnny Carson and everyone is drinking and smoking. It was a party! And then, for the next 40 years, the party stopped. I never imagined I’d host a game show, but Syfy wanted me to do it because I understand the world of geek trivia. Also, they must have heard I’m a total lush. [Read the full interview]

]]>http://zacharylevifan.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=140660Zachary Levi on Heroes: Reborn: ‘I wanted something that wasn’t Chuck’http://zacharylevifan.com/wordpress/?p=14064
http://zacharylevifan.com/wordpress/?p=14064#commentsMon, 06 Jul 2015 18:28:33 +0000http://zacharylevifan.com/wordpress/?p=14064ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Were you a Heroes fan before?
ZACHARY LEVI: Yeah. We were on Monday nights together. We had a lot of like press tie-in things and I met all the cast and and became friends with them. I was always looking from the outside in going, “Man wouldn’t that be so cool to be on that show.” I mean, Chuck was great obviously, but flying around and shooting lightning bolts out of your hands — all that stuff is so cool, especially as a comic-book kid. So when somebody sent me an article saying they’re going to do a Heroes: Reborn miniseries, I was like, “Sign me up!.”

Heroes seems like the sort of show Chuck would watch.
Oh absolutely. Heroes is absolutely something that Chuck would watch 100 percent.

Did you reach out to NBC, then?
Initially, I reached out to them. Then I ran into some of my NBC friends and they’re like “We’d love to have you back on NBC.” Then I started having some conversations with Tim Kring and he was open to the idea and pitched me on this character and kind of some broad strokes and I thought, “This is awesome.” For me, my one big mandate was I wanted to play something that wasn’t Chuck. I wanted to get away from that kind of archetype and do something that was darker and grittier and heavier — and that’s exactly what we found. It also still has a really unique dynamic kind of arc to the character and the journey that he’s on. [Read the full interview]